Monday and Tuesday night marks the end of that series which highlighted a solid mix of comedies from the decade. Shown outside next to the bar and live music venue, Satellite is known for great series like this. Recently they hosted a month of anime movies and in the past a block of Wilmington-made movies.

Monday night they’ll show, to some, an obscure science fiction comedy called “The Ice Pirates” (space herpes!) from 1984 that starred Robert Urich. Other parts were played by Anjelica Huston, John Carradine, Ron Perlman and John Matuszak (Sloth from “The Goonies”).

In “The Ice Pirates” Urich plays the leader of a band of pirates in the far future where water is so scarce that it’s used as currency. Goofy, bawdy and a comedy often compared to “Star Wars,” its like a “big budget” sitcom episode. It’s also a flick that the Huffington Postbrought up in an article about space adventure movies in advance of this summer’s “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

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Although dated, and very tame compared to movies today, 1979’s “Meatballs” is perfect for ending the series. It was directed by Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters,” “Draft Day”) about a group of young people running a summer camp. In an interview earlier this year with Marc Maron on his WTF podcast Reitman said Bill Murray initially turned down the movie and “was more interested in playing baseball that summer.”

Murray came through and made the most well known summer camp film, playing mentor and friend to a young camper (Chris Makepeace) who doesn’t fit in and has a really bad hair-do. Murray’s carefree attitude helped inform characters in films to come, like Van Wilder of Sam Rockwell in last year’s “The Way Way Back.”

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